There are 2 replies, with the last one on May 16 2013 at 11:25:58 by Antony
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Hi Belsky,
The "add boot menu" option of Macrium Reflect adds an entry to your boot configuration database. To explain where this fits in the boot process, there are three stages (this is a simplification):
* The Master Boot Record code on your disk. The BIOS loads this up and runs it.
* This code finds your active partition and loads some startup code from it.
* This startup code finally has enough space and knowledge to load the boot manager code proper, which reads the boot configuration database, which then displays your options.
Our changes to the boot menu will therefore only affect your boot process at the Windows loading stage (the BCD data is the data read by the last step). This process does not need you to alter any BIOS options as Drac144 says, since the BIOS can already start off this process as it is configured.
Adding a boot menu has no effect on shutdown at all - you have already chosen which environment to load and this environment (PE, Windows) has its own mechanism for shutting down.
The cause of your issue is likely to be something else either scheduling a restart, or a BIOS configuration option of some sort. For example, Windows Update often replaces the shutdown option with an "Install Updates and Restart" one.
What may be useful is if you could please run us through the steps you took with Macrium Reflect to add your boot menu, and if removing it temporarily fixes your issue? This will help us understand what has or has not changed and let us work out if the presence of the boot menu is causing the system or a third party utility on it to trigger restarts rather than shutdowns.
Kind Regards,
Antony
Macrium Support
Quote:
Hi Belsky,
The "add boot menu" option of Macrium Reflect adds an entry to your boot configuration database. To explain where this fits in the boot process, there are three stages (this is a simplification):
* The Master Boot Record code on your disk. The BIOS loads this up and runs it.
* This code finds your active partition and loads some startup code from it.
* This startup code finally has enough space and knowledge to load the boot manager code proper, which reads the boot configuration database, which then displays your options.
Our changes to the boot menu will therefore only affect your boot process at the Windows loading stage (the BCD data is the data read by the last step). This process does not need you to alter any BIOS options as Drac144 says, since the BIOS can already start off this process as it is configured.
Adding a boot menu has no effect on shutdown at all - you have already chosen which environment to load and this environment (PE, Windows) has its own mechanism for shutting down.
The cause of your issue is likely to be something else either scheduling a restart, or a BIOS configuration option of some sort. For example, Windows Update often replaces the shutdown option with an "Install Updates and Restart" one.
What may be useful is if you could please run us through the steps you took with Macrium Reflect to add your boot menu, and if removing it temporarily fixes your issue? This will help us understand what has or has not changed and let us work out if the presence of the boot menu is causing the system or a third party utility on it to trigger restarts rather than shutdowns.
Kind Regards,
Antony
Macrium Support